Operation Cherry Hill

Operation Cherry Hill was a US Marine Corps military operation that occurred in April 2008 during the Iraq War. The Marines were dispatched to recapture a hill near the Iraqi Kurdistan town of Sinjar to assist the United States' Kurdish Peshmerga allies against the Islamic State of Iraq, and the marines managed to brave sniper fire from insurgents on the Sinjar mount as they advance up the hill and secured the town itself and the nearby bunkers. The Iraqi insurgents were forced to pull back, and the Americans liberated Sinjar from the terrorists despite some fierce resistance.